The Great Gatsby

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The film The Great Gatsby (2013) is a romantic drama about a writer and Wall Street stock broker, Nick, who becomes engulfed in the lavish lifestyle of his neighbor, Jay Gatsby. However, Carraway soon realizes that Gatsby’s lifestyle revolves around a world of greed, madness, obsession, corruption, and materialism. This film is directed Baz Luhrmann, and the stars consist of Leonardo DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby, Tobey Maguire as Nick Carraway, Carey Mulligan as Daisy Buchanan , and Joel Edgerton as Tom Buchanan. The story was written by Baz Luhrmann and Craig Pearce and was based on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel The Great Gatsby. The film was released on May 1, 2013, distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures Roadshow Entertainment. The setting for …show more content…

Carraway rents a house on Long Island in the less fashionable West Egg, next door to the humongous mansion of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby. Across the bay in the more fashionable East Egg, lives his beautiful cousin, Daisy Buchanan, and her aggressive husband, Tom Buchanan. Before he realizes it, Nick is lured into the problematic and deceiving world of the wealthy. However, Nick discovers that the lavish lifestyle of the rich consists of immorality, corruption, materialism, madness, greed, deception, and ultimately results in …show more content…

For example, I enjoyed Leonardo DiCaprio’s acting choices in the scene in which he explodes and starts screaming after Tom points out the truth about who is and how he got his money. That scene ultimately affected the way the film looked, felt, and sounded because DiCaprio’s explosive anger displayed the person he really is under the mask of corruption and immorality. Overall, the acting contributes to the way the film looks, feels, and sounds through the emphasized acting choices, help intensify significant scenes in the film and help the audience discover the ultimate meaning of the

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